WASHINGTON — The director of the Fish and Wildlife Service defended the agency requirement that two employees going to international meetings on the Arctic not discuss climate change, saying diplomatic protocol limited employees to an agreed-on agenda. Two memorandums written about a week ago and reported by The New York Times and the Web site of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer on Thursday set strict parameters for what the two employees could and could not discuss at meetings in Norway and Russia. The stipulations that the employees ‘will not be speaking on or responding to’ questions about climate change, polar bears and sea ice are ‘consistent with staying with our commitment to the other countries to talk about only what’s on the agenda,’ said the director of the agency, H. Dale Hall. One of the two employees, Janet E. Hohn, is scheduled to accompany a delegation to Norway led by Julia Gourley of the State Department at a meeting on conserving Arctic animals and plants. Tina Kreisher, a spokeswoman for the Interior Department, parent of the wildlife service, said the memorandum did not prohibit Ms. Hahn from talking about climate change ‘over a beer’ but indicated that climate […]